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Two years ago, I was working in a project where our goal was to write a web excel-like application to calculate products/services prices... This project became so big and we didn’t use any types of automated tests (our QA team was doing manual tests) that the project spent more time being tested than being developed. Each little change, the project spent hours, hours and hours with the QA team. One day I went to a developer meeting and talked about my problem with others programmers. They suggested to me learn about unit tests, acceptance tests and TDD.

As with most things: start slowly, master small projects before big projects, and keep learning.

ASCII is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It uses 7-bit numbers to represent the letters, numerals and common punctuation used in American English. The fact that ASCII uses 7-bit numbers means there are 2-to-the-power-7 or 128 possible values it can represent, from 0 to 127 inclusive. Each of those 128 values is assigned to a character.... ASCII really should have been named ASCIIWOA: the American Standard Code for Information Exchange With Other Americans.

The history of character encoding in a U+006E U+0075 U+0074 U+0073 U+0068 U+0065 U+006C U+006C.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

S/360 launched with EBCDIC because by the time ascii was finalized it was too late to rewrite the system. Paper launches don't count.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

Software programming? Yeah it’s an okay way to make a living. But the real money is in teaching. Or at least that’s the recent experience of Scott Allen, a programmer and teacher the tech-y online education platform Pluralsight.com. Allen has earned more than $1.8 million through fees and royalties from Pluralsight over the last five years.... Both higher education and journalism have recently had their economic foundations rocked. The purists in both industries are wary of the democratizing potential of the Internet to replace august institutions of old. Meanwhile, others hope the Web may be an answer for solving some of the innate problems.

You can learn to teach, too, by sharing your expertise on CodeProject and CodeProject.tv.

Back when I was a student, the way you talked to other people on the internet was via Usenet. The language we used, while still called “English”, was slightly different from the language we use today. One small example of this difference is that there was still an outside chance that the word “hacker” could be a badge of honour, an indication of one who wanted to understand the principles of a system and how they could manipulate it.

In December 2011, the Department of Homeland Security notified both the EDA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that there was a potential malware infection within the two agencies' systems. The NOAA isolated and cleaned up the problem within a few weeks.... EDA's CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice.

Would you believe Stuxnet in the laser printer? How about malware in a popup window?

Take Google's bizarre practice of publicly killing products. To most companies, killing a product is a shameful thing. It disappoints customers, and it hurts your own ego because it's an admission that you failed. Most companies hide their product cancellations... Google does the exact opposite – a couple of times a year it trumpets to the world that it's terminating products and services that millions of people love and rely on. Google isn't merely up front about these cancellations; it's downright cheerful... If you look at the world through the eyes of the scientific method, every Google project is an experiment, and experiments must be periodically reviewed. When an experiment is completed, you either choose to follow up on it, or you terminate it and move on to something else.

From closing Reader to buying Motorola, an insider explains the hidden meaning.

‘Halalgoogling’ fetches results from leading search engines such as Google and Bing and has a built-in “advanced special filtering system that blocks Haram content according to the Law of Islam”, the press release said.

If they are trying to detaching them selves from world it dos't mean they are safe or their children's.
They have to teach them well to live among all but not to learn bad things just to do good things...

Indigenous European and Turkish Muslims will eat pork and drink alcohol. There are many British Muslim women who don't wear any kind of Hijab and freely associate with men. One of them even plays a stringed instrument from time to time. I personally know a number of Muslims who earn interest on their savings.

One person's Haram is not the same as another's. Stuff like this delegates free thinking away from yourself.

At the same time the Muslim sinners I personally know don't feel all that guilty about it.

Then, I'm sorry to say but they are into serious trouble; that's the biggest thing to worry if they are feeling they are not guilty as compared to the guys who feel guilty (because here there is a chance that in some point of time in future they may quit those mistakes/sins once they realize fully and pray to God for forgiveness).